Being “apolitical” is a luxury of the privileged, especially in turbulent times.

True tests of courage, morals, and ethics are occurring more and more every day now, especially in the tech industry that is so closely intertwined with the regimes across the world who seek to cause great harm to those who do not look like, speak like, or believe in the same things as them.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - there’s your quote for political apathy.

A good reason is that Lisp has almost no syntax. So it can act as a neutral language that is easy to learn for developers from other languages.

There is such a thing as a distinct LLM writing style that is not just good structure. Anyone who's read more than five books can tell that.

And the comment itself seems completely LLM generated.

That's not just false. It's the antithesis of true.

It's not just using rhetorical patterns humans also use which are in some contexts considered good writing. Its overusing them like a high schooler learning the pattern for the first time — and massively overdoing the em dashes and mixing the metaphors

LOL :-))

It's true that LLMs have a distinct style, but it does not preclude humans from writing in a similar style. That's where the LLMs got it from, people and training. There's certainly some emergent style that given enough text, you would likely never see from a human. But in a short comment like this, it's really not enough data to be making good judgements.

Is there such a thing as a modern Linux stack?

Isn't it by design that linux has many optional components and one can pick and choose as they desire to create their distribution?

Obviously, it is full of options. But building something resembling probably the most common desktop/workstation distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora would be what I call "modern Linux stack".

I guess it happens when engineers stop driving decisions and the finance people take over. Won't be too good for the company's valuation if people can access the content elsewhere.

I guess that's why Discord is also locked down as much. They have community content that is inaccessible anywhere else but Discord.

I don't like this engineers vs. finance people / MBA divide that I see parroted a lot on HN. And obviously, it's parroted by engineers.

Like, all engineers are saints and the other side are all sinners. What crap. Get real, guys. There are all kinds of multicolored and multidimensional people.

Having been on all 3 or 4 or 5 of these sides :) (dev, sysadm, manager, consultant, ...), I have seen that.

Grow up, folks, and enjoy life in all its richness.

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Yeah but Zuck has always been a nasty piece of work. He wasn't "just young" and "grew up" when he wrote those IMs. See: (to list just one) the constant copying of Snapchat

He copied Snapchat and then Tiktok -- which have been most likely immensely positive for the bottom line.

Speaking personally, Reels are just annoying (not that I admire TikTok either, aligned as it probably is with the CCP)

Snapchat features are blood money, they also result in less people using Snapchat

Nobody says Zuck doesn't earn a lot of money but a lot of it is likely fraudulent and he's just not a very good person

Last phrase is understatement of the century.

He's a POS, that's also why POSSE is good. ;)

Last phrase highlights what investors care about. I personally hate reels and tiktok -- they should've stopped at stories.

To me it just validates the history of Facebook

Did he/didn't he steal? Dunno, though there's a fair few bits of evidence in the various lawsuits (Winklevoss, Greenspan)

But if you didn't know about any of that you could make some inferences. Like his neverending "ooh, shiny new thing, want" (and then lie to people along the way, trick Indians into signing up for your internet.org thing)

I was willing to take his side on a few things because the political situation is genuinely unclear and the public has been misled but then right after he wrote the open letter to Jim Jordan about censorship coercion (which was a real problem, I want to see more tech companies talking about it) he does this https://hackertimes.com/item?id=42651178

It's kind of like he has raw bits of intelligence but doesn't quite know how to piece it together and besides "his" inventions (even FB) are put together (largely?!) by other people

>But if you didn't know about any of that you could make some inferences. Like his neverending "ooh, shiny new thing, want" (and then lie to people along the way, trick Indians into signing up for your internet.org thing)

Yeah, that trying to trick Indians into that thing (IIRC, it was also called Free Basics or something like, to sound attractive, prolly) became a big issue in India at the time, I remember, although I didn't delve deep into the matter. I think a group of leading Indian freedom activists took on FB in the media and petitioned the government, and it resulted in the whole scheme collapsing.

Sarah Wynn Williams in her book talks about how it was her initiative to call it Free Basics because internet.org was false advertising

I meant last phrase, not last sentence, which is what you seem to have understood, going by your reply.

This is what I was referring to in my earlier comment: "he's just not a very good person".

To be fair, it benefits a platform’s users to reduce automated posts in favour of real contributions.

To me, it's better than spending months of your free time grinding leetcode to get past an interview (everyone wants to hire like FAANG now).

You get a small reward in return if the contribution is accepted and you get to contribute to the world corpus of knowledge.

I don't think they intend to supplant cPython, but to make it easier for someone to take a piece of software written in high-productivity Python and make it more performant on specialized hardware by using a similar syntax.

Long term it can find applications outside of ML-specific hardware.

That may be the intent, but if the semantics of passing parameters is different, how will that work when it comes to customer testimonials?

Eating your own dogfood is good validation.

I think it's part of the "AI replacing software developers" hype.

Many beginners or aspiring developers swallow this whole and simply point an AI to a problem and submit the generated slop to maintainers.

I believe just as human experts do peer review, someone will need to review the AI's work.

The people who do this review will have to know enough to follow along.